You Will Anyway: GOP Debates

Showing posts with label GOP Debates. Show all posts

Showing posts with label GOP Debates. Show all posts

Saturday, January 05, 2008

New Hampshire GOP Withdraws Support of Fox Debates

In protest of Fox News’ excluding Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter from its GOP presidential candidates forum Sunday, the New Hampshire state Republican Party has withdrawn its sponsorship of the forum.
Politico

As a matter of fact, Duncan Hunter was in the top three in the Wyoming caucuses just held. (There was a Wyoming caucus?)

Thursday, September 06, 2007

2008

I didn't watch Fox's Republican debate. It's much more palatable as a W3IAI summary.

The commentary there is funny and witty, but I'd just like to add one thing to one of the McCain quotes:

“On January of 2000 -- of 1981, Ronald Reagan came to power and raised his hand as president of the United States of America. By more than coincidence the Iranian hostages returned on that same day. I would employ some of his methods.”

Which methods is he talking about? Because it sounds like he's talking about the illegal ones, or maybe the ones where Reagan supposedly made deals with the Iranians behind the current president Carter's back.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

And what hostages is he trying to free?

Is he as confused as I am about what he means? Maybe we need the question to understand the answer. Maybe.

Oh, and...

Fred Thompson skipped the debate to announce his candidacy on Jay Leno's show. Will he ever participate in a debate? I might have thought a Faux News debate would be a good safe place to work.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

YouTube GOP Debate

The last I checked, there were only two candidates willing to participate (John McCain and Ron Paul). But, here's your chance to to submit a question. Click:

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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And other words of wisdom...

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. -- John Andrew Holmes

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack. -- Molly Ivins

[War] is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious [racket]. ... It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives ... It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. -- Major General Smedley Butler

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -- Albert Einstein

"The brain of our species is, as we know, made up largely of potassium, phosphorus, propaganda, and politics, with the result that how not to understand what should be clearer is becoming easier and easier for all of us." -- James Thurber

One of the fun aspects of Empire is how many ironies it creates. -- Glenn Greenwald

I had a slightly insane discussion the other day with a winger who wanted urgently for me to understand that the Haditha massacre is the kind of thing that happens in war. Whereas I was trying to point out to him that the Haditha massacre is the kind of thing that happens in war. -- Molly Ivins

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. --George Orwell

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare. –- Howard Zinn

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. --Upton Sinclair

If we're the greatest country in the world, then maybe we could have the greatest government. -- Lewis Black

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. -- Aristotle

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who loves his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. -- H.L. Mencken

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -- James Madison, 4th President of the United States

No nation builds a wall out of strength. They build it out of fear. -- Michael Flynn

They call it The American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. -- George Carlin

Texas justice is Texas justice. -- Victoria Nuland, US State Department spokeswoman

When you hold up your arm and swear to uphold the Constitution, you don’t say, “Except in wartime.” -- George McGovern

Sometimes I go about with pity for myself, and all the while Great Winds are carrying me across the sky. ~Ojibway saying